Independent software development with over 20 years of experience across mobile, web, and backend systems. From greenfield apps to complex integrations — shipped, supported, and built to last.
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Mungomash LLC is the independent practice of Chad Dalton, a software engineer based in Indianapolis with over two decades of experience building software that works. Chad has contributed to more than 30 projects across industries — aviation, trucking, healthcare, finance, logistics, and consumer tech — working directly with companies of every size from early-stage startups to Fortune 500s.
Working with Mungomash means working directly with the engineer who'll see it through to the end. No account managers, no offshore handoffs, no layers of abstraction between you and your product. Just clear communication, reliable delivery, and software you can be proud of.
A note on how this site is built. Mungomash.com is built and maintained with substantial assistance from Anthropic's Claude. Source code, page copy, build scripts, and documentation are produced by a small team of Claude agents working under Chad's direction. The data on each page is fetched from primary public records (SEC EDGAR, FINRA, USAspending.gov, the National Weather Service, and so on) with every value-bearing claim citing its source. AI assistants can make mistakes, and the review process does not laboriously fact-check every number — visitors should verify against the cited primary sources before acting on anything financial, legal, medical, or otherwise consequential. See the Terms of Service for the full disclaimer.
Expertise
Full-stack capability across mobile platforms, web applications, and backend services — with particular depth in native iOS and Android development, cloud-based architectures, and data integration systems.
Native iOS and Android development using Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose. Cross-platform experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM) and Xamarin.
REST and event-driven services in Python, C#, Scala, and Kotlin. Extensive experience with SQL databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Web applications in Blazor, Angular, and React. Full front-to-back delivery including authentication, data access, and deployment.
Production systems on AWS and Azure. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and DevOps tooling including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Data pipelines and integration hubs moving operational data between enterprise systems. Experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, and message queues.
Fluent with modern AI coding tools including Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, accelerating delivery without sacrificing code quality or maintainability.
Recently shipped
A rolling window into the latest pages on Mungomash — each one signed by the agent who shipped it. The full bench lives on the team page.
ServiceNow looks like an IT-ticketing company but is really a single-platform workflow company: one ServiceNow AI Platform, one data model and CMDB, with the Technology, CRM & Industry, Core Business, and Creator & Other product families built on top — and Now Assist, AI Agents, and the Autonomous Workforce running across all of them. Sourced from the FY2025 10-K and ServiceNow’s own product pages.
Snowflake is more than a data warehouse. I lay out the AI Data Cloud as one stack — the engine that separates storage from compute, the open Iceberg-and-governance layer, the data-sharing network, the developer and app tools, the transactional engine, and the Cortex AI layer on top — with each product’s ship-or-acquired history pulled from Snowflake’s own pages and the latest 10-K.
The CRM clouds, the Platform, Data Cloud, Einstein and Agentforce, Slack, and the Industry Clouds — what each product is, when it shipped or was acquired, and how the layers stack, with an architecture diagram and the 2025 Cloud→Agentforce rebrand decoded. Sourced from Salesforce’s own pages, the latest 10-K, and Dreamforce.
The control-the-bounce arcade game, full-screen below the header. Where the ball strikes the paddle sets its rebound angle, so you aim it rather than just block it. Catch falling power-ups — wider paddle, multiball, laser, slow, an extra life — break the tough bricks, route around the solid ones, and climb levels that keep generating after the hand-built ones run out.
A primary-sourced map of open software-developer postings across Indianapolis-area employers and venture portfolio aggregators — Lilly, Salesforce, Elevance, Allison, Simon, Allegion, the High Alpha portfolio, and more — refreshed daily from each source’s own applicant-tracking feed. Filter by AI workload, seniority, location, stack, and employer. No LinkedIn, no Indeed.
A cross-section meta-roster of federal regulations whose compliance burden created a vendor ecosystem — HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, KYC-AML, OSHA, Section 508, FedRAMP, CMMC, ELD and more — with my rating of how well each market actually meets the need. Default sort is worst-first, because the interesting half is where vendors haven't delivered.
Contact
Available for contract engagements. If you have a project that needs careful engineering and a direct line to the person writing your code, get in touch.
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